In Manhattan’s bustling Flatiron District, 49 coastal Atlantic cedars – each around 40ft tall, leafless branches grasping at the sky – tower over Madison Square Park’s usually flat, grassy plain. Ghost Forest is a temporary, grounded offshoot of sorts for What Is Missing?, though on a much shorter timeframe than Lin’s preferred window. Photograph: Courtesy the artist and Madison Square Park Conservancy / Andy RomerLin originally intended to install a grove of willows in Madison Square Park, which could then be replanted elsewhere. The forest is also accompanied by numerous resources for nature-based solutions to climate disaster through What Is Missing? Whether through the specter of dead forests itself or its offshoots – a concert on the Madison Square Park green, QR codes to resources nearby, the larger What Is Missing?

Source: The Guardian May 13, 2021 06:22 UTC